Sociology of Knowledge and Education
Sociology of Religion
Sociology of Language
(Neo-)Phenomenology
Qualitative Research Methods (esp. Ethnography, Systematic Metaphor Analysis)Consultation hours by appointment
01/2025
Doctorate (Dr. phil.) in the subject of Sociology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Title of thesis: Geistesgegenwart. Sprechen in Metaphern in spirituellen Konversions- und Kommunikationstexten.
03/2015
Master of Arts
Title of thesis: Das Transzendente wahrnehmbar machen. Die Herstellung von Präsenz von Nichtmenschen in spirituellen Feldern
2012-2015
Studies of Sociology (Master of Arts), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
03/2012
Bachelor of Arts
Thesis title: Zum Verhältnis von Praktiken und Dingen. Ein Vergleich eines praxistheoretischen Zugangs mit der Actor-Network-Theory. (Awarded the prize for outstanding final theses of the Institute of Sociology and Faculty 02 of JGU Mainz)
2009-2012
Studies of Sociology (Bachelor of Arts), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
2002-2008
Studies of law at the University of Mannheim and the “Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet”, School of economics and commercial law (Sweden)
since 04/2020
Research Associate, Institute for Sociology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
07/2018-03/2020
Parental leave
since 04/2017
Research Associate, Institute of Sociology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
09/2015-03/2017
Parental leave
since 04/2015
Research Assistant, Institute for Sociology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
2011-2014
Graduate Assistant, Institute of Sociology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
The dissertation project is interested in the connection between the linguistic and various dimensions of the religious. In particular, it deals with various forms of alternative religiosity as they can currently be observed in the field of esotericism. The starting point is the assumption that language, or rather the practice of speaking, has a constitutive effect in the creation of alternative world views, concepts of reality and cosmologies. Against this background, various communication contexts with esoteric connotations are examined and the concrete forms of expression in which the contents and experiences of esoteric world views are articulated, communicated and legitimized are investigated. One methodological focus is on the systematic reconstruction of metaphors that are regarded as constitutive for esoteric linguistic jargon. The dissertation project is located at the interface between the sociology of religion and linguistics, drawing on concepts from conversion research and combining these with assumptions from the sociology of language and narrative theory.
Jenseitsreisen. Zur leiblichen Kommunikation mit Verstorbenen. 3. Tagung des Interdisziplinären Arbeitskreises Phänomenologien und Soziologie“ (IAPS) der DGS. Sektion „Soziologische Theorie“: Leibliche Interaktion. Phänomenologische Annäherungen an einen soziologischen Grundbegriff. (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, 28./29. June 2018.)
(2026): Presence of mind. Metaphors and spiritual practice (forthcoming)
2019
Prize for outstanding final theses of the Institute of Sociology and Faculty 02 of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Seminar (M.Ed.): Research Workshop I – Ethnography (summer semester 2020, winter semester 2020/21, winter semester 2024/25)
Seminar (M.Ed.): Research Workshop II – Ethnography (winter semester 2020/2021, summer semester 2021, summer semester 2025)
Seminar (B.Ed.): Equality and Difference in School and Teaching (since summer semester 2015)
Seminar (B.Ed.): Communication and Interaction (since summer semester 2015)
Colloquium: BA final theses (winter semester 2024/25)
German Sociological Association (Section Methods of Qualitative Social Research, Interdisciplinary Working Group Phenomenologies and Sociology)
